Plebble on Nostr: Had everyone at lifeboats once with so much gas coming out that entire drill ship was ...

Had everyone at lifeboats once with so much gas coming out that entire drill ship was shaking. That’s one massive boat. Very humbling experience. Stupid thing was it should never have happened. Left instructions at end of shift, went to bed. Got up and checked with people and they’d not followed. Went to guy in charge and told him to stop ops until we verified. He wouldn’t. Bloody stupid. When drilling in deep water, the barrier to shut off the well is on the sea bed. If gas gets into the riser connecting boat to the well, there’s no way to block it off. Gas doubles in size every meter it rises. When water depth is over 1000m, it just doesn’t take that much. Mental stuff